In the interest of food security and to help Barbados reduce its high food import bill, Victory Gardens Caribbean, in partnership with FarmFinder and the National Conservation Commission, is launching an eight-week […]
When the sun rose this Monday, about 250 people were already waiting outside the Boyeros y Camagüey store in Havana to buy food and toiletries with foreign currency. Since last week, when the […]
Is it the fear of the coronavirus, are it the buses that are not driving or is the consumer doing his shopping elsewhere? After four months of closure, the Central Market and the […]
A team of top executives from the charitable organisation, United Way of Jamaica (UWJ), journeyed to St Ann recently to join forces with one of its long-time partners, Noranda Bauxite, to distribute […]
THE region’s over-reliance on imported food is something thatCaribbean countries must work to reduce, by creating more jobs in theagricultural sector. Wayne Chen, President of the Caribbean Employers’ Confederation and amember of […]
PRIME Minister of Barbados and Chairman of CARICOM, The Honourable Mia Amor Mottley has once again made a case for greater equity as it relates to regional access to funding, supplies and […]
On May 25 Suriname goes to the ballot box. Political parties struggle to get votes. Flags of various parties are placed throughout the country. However, flags do not fill the stomachs, but food packages do. Do […]
Consideration is still being given to a milk cess, but Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Indar Weir, says due to the current constraints, the idea is one that would have to […]
Experts at the University of the West Indies are urging Caribbean countries to invest more in ensuring regional food security. Putting the price tag for importing food at US $6 billion, Dr […]
Jean Wickham’s two sons are in college. Her husband has worked at the same New Jersey casino for 36 years. She recently felt secure enough to trade her full-time casino job for […]
